As you go through our Life and Career Planning process, you’re investing time in personal development. A great supplement to this journey is to take in some of the experience and wisdom of others.

One Thing About Meetings

Standing meetings in the workplace have a tendency to meander. Often the opening three minutes of social “catching up” becomes 20 minutes. Then there are the tangents we invariably wander off on.

A Lesson on Priorities from the Apollo Guidance Computer

The smallest computer in 1962 weighed about three tons and consumed enough power to light up a city block. So NASA commissioned the engineers at MIT to do something unheard of.

Action Versus Reaction

We all know the physics lesson: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Often we apply this not only to the physical world, but to leadership, decision-making and management.

What Motivates You

Your life and work will rise or fall based on your motivation. The reasons behind why you get up each morning and go through the day will direct your steps and eventual outcomes. Movation is the internal drive that compels you to act.

Does Faith Make a Difference in Business?

As a business leader you might be looking for an advantage, any “edge” you can use to move your company. Do your religious beliefs and practices affect how you do your job—and might that deeper faith play a role in your business success?

Forming Meaningful Relationships

The single most important element of leadership is forming meaningful relationships. It’s not “who you know”, but rather that you have the capacity to really know others.

The Faith and Leadership Gap

Many leaders who have a relationship with God want to experience the blessings of God. We ask God for blessings. We pray about it and we earnestly seek God’s best.

Where have All the Good Men Gone?

We aren’t teaching boys what it means to be a man. They lack not only the knowledge of manhood, but any concept of the responsibilities of a man. In short, males do not know how to live and act as men.

Three Secrets of Time Management

Every leader has an equal amount of one resource—time. How we plan and spend our hours and days can lead us to success or failure. Do you have a strategy for managing your time?

Three Leadership Habits to Start

The key facet of leadership development—that is, investing in others for the purpose of seeing them exhibit excellence through their own lives and leadership—is “baked in” to New Testament teaching.

How to Win at Politics

American politics is getting more intense and divisive by the day. The democratic tradition of debate and discourse, leading to compromise and unity, is all but gone in the US. Instead, we gather into tribes based on deeply held political beliefs, we deride the opposition.

Faith and Money… More or Less

What is a healthy view of money and profit? Can we desire financial success, and still serve God with full devotion? It’s really a question of where our treasure—and heart—lies.

Understanding Relational Leadership

As a leader, you’re not over a what, but a who. To lead is to influence others in a way that helps them grow personally, professionally and spiritually. Leadership is fundamentally about influencing people.

What's On Your Plate?

One trait we often look for in leaders is the ability to multitask. Smart, capable leaders can handle multiple tasks, priorities and decisions at once, right? No, actually, that’s wrong. There is a limit to the number of things any leaders can process at once.

The High Ways of God

There are aspects of the Father that go above our heads. Though we can’t possibly know all the ways of God, we can know, in a broad sense, how God’s ways are higher our ways.

Four Ways to Invest in People Today

One of the greatest investments you can make as a leader will not be found in a stock selection, or emerging technologies, or foreign markets. A leader’s most powerful commodity is his relationships with people.

What Is Christian Leadership?

Once a person surrenders their life to Christ, faith and leadership cannot be separated. It is “baked in”. The difference in Christian leadership is that faith takes point for the leader.

The Solution To Being Unfulfilled

Fulfillment is the happiness or satisfaction that comes from developing one’s own abilities or character. A leader who knows his talents and skills are being put to good use and that he is growing personally and professionally has the mindset that he is stewarding his life well.

The Danger of Checking Out

An alarming trend is younger workers checking out. Whether from burnout, mental health issues, boredom or self-isolation, more and more workers and leaders and disengaging. What does the Bible say about it?

How Wise Leaders Use Their Time

There is great wisdom in the profitable use of time. For a leader, this takes a certain amount of discipline, and a purposeful desire to use his days for positive and impactful tasks and relationships.

22 Rules for Leaders

Don’t you wish someone had a set of hard-and-fast rules for leadership? If you just did these things then success is assured! Rules, though, typically come from the hard lessons of experience.

Gaining Direction for Life

Most workers can easily define what they do on a daily basis. Much harder is to determine why they are doing it, beyond the obvious facet of earning money.

How to Let Go of the Past

Most people carry a load of baggage through life. Past mistakes, relationships, decisions, circumstances weigh us down. Here’s how to let go.

Leading Through Prayer

Your leadership can not only benefit from prayer, but you can use prayer as a tool to develop others.

Four Things to Pray About at Work

We overlook the promises God makes with prayer. God says that He hears our prayers. God says that He answers and acts based on our prayers. Prayer indeed is a powerful and personal tool for a faith-centered leader.

Things Kids Learn From Dad

Your time with your children on a daily basis shows them more than anything that they are valued. No friend, or interest, or goal, is going to give them greater sense of value than you will.

Clarity of Purpose

Do you know why you do what you do? Only around 25% of Americans adults cite having a clear sense of what makes their lives meaningful.

When To Say No

Succumbing to the urge to avoid conflict and confrontation, we will often say “yes” to things we have no time for, that will take us away from more important priorities, or that will engage us in activity that has no real meaning for us.

Encouragement Empowers Leadership

When you give and receive encouragement, it helps to put these things into perspective, to manage disappointment, and to celebrate accomplishment when it does come. Encouragement strengthens an individual emotionally.

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